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NAME Vernon Leroy Goodwin |
NICKNAME — |
SERVICE NUMBER 337923 |
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| HOME OF RECORD 1750 Grand Avenue, Jackson, MS |
NEXT OF KIN Mother, Mrs. Bessie Mabel Goodwin |
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| DATE OF BIRTH May, 1923 |
ENTERED SERVICE December 29, 1941 |
DATE OF LOSS December 3, 1942 |
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| REGION Solomons |
CAMPAIGN / AREA Guadalcanal |
CASUALTY TYPE MIA / Declared Dead December 4, 1943 |
UNIT VMSB-131 |
DUTY Radioman |
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| CIRCUMSTANCES OF LOSS Corporal Vernon L. Goodwin was an aviation radioman assigned to VMSB-131, flying TBF Avenger bombers out of Henderson Field, Guadalcanal. On 3 December 1942, the crew of TBF-1 BuNo 00558 – First Lieutenant Bruce C. Pelto, Corporal Goodwin, and PFC Kenneth C. Gros – participated in a strike against Japanese shipping about 160 miles northwest of Guadalcanal. The return flight was made after dark and in very poor weather. Lieutenant Pelto’s plane was last heard from about twenty miles from Guadalcanal; it never returned to the field. All three Marines were declared dead on 4 December 1943. |
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| INDIVIDUAL DECORATIONS Commendation Ribbon, Purple Heart |
LAST KNOWN RANK Corporal |
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| STATUS OF REMAINS Not recovered. |
MEMORIALS Manila American Cemetery |
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